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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

Assuming you have a large amount of capital to invest, the relatively easy decision is to invest in one of the brand-name, multi-billion dollar VCs. The Economics of Private Equity Funds demonstrates that the VC industry survives mostly on fee-based income (of which larger funds have a proportionally larger amount).

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Status / reputation. want to sidestep the argument about whether or not it's good to be " stealth " or not, and work with the assumption that if you've purchased the domain name, you're going to put up some sort of website. CompStudy 2008 Report on Equity and Cash Compensation at Technology Startups. Let's recap.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

He has a series of this name and you can see us discussing the topic on YouTube. I programmed since the time I was seven-years old, as I explain in my blog post on why I named this blog?—?Lucky7?—?in When I started Bazaarvoice, I had a reputation due to my success with Coremetrics and also my status as a member of the Shop.org Board.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. Back in 1999, if a company raised $30mm before an IPO, that was considered a large historic raise. They use the reputation of the other investors as a proxy for due diligence.

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